By ROB NUNLEY One of Warren County Middle School?s 2006 football team MVPs Caleb Northcutt. A perfect season deserves a perfect wrap-up. The Warren County Middle School football squad celebrated its undefeated 2006 campaign and Central Tennessee Conference championship at its recent postseason awards banquet. While the accomplishments of the 9-0 Pioneers were lauded throughout…

By Dale Stubblefield Hopefully everyone had a great Christmas, and Santa brought everything you asked for. Apparently, I was good enough this past year to receive several things off of my wish list. As for a few of my cronies here in the newsroom, Santa rode right past their houses on Christmas Eve. See boys…

By ROB NUNLEY The Lady Pioneer basketball team celebrated Christmas on Monday, then had even more reason to celebrate a day later. Warren County?s girls, a team which hadn?t captured a victory since a Nov. 24 win over Springfield at the Dr Pepper Thanksgiving Classic, topped the host team from the 2006 Overton Christmas Tournament…

County and city Christmas Lighting Contest winners have received their prizes. County prizes were presented by Caney Fork employees Vicki Messick and Terry Mullican. Pictured are, front row, from left, Messick, Billy Pitmon, Joe Bob Mills, Ethan and Dorothy Parsons. Back row, Mullican, Billy Cunningham, Chase and Loren Parsons.

In the true spirit of Christmas Teresa Priestly?s Westwood Day School 3-year-old class donated stuffed animals to the Warren County Ambulance Service to be distributed to county children. Pictured are, front row, from left, Priestly, Anna Prater, Kristen Turner and Peyton Youngblood. Second row, Will Byford, Andy Dunn and Will Prater. Back, Ambulance Service employees…

By CHARLES W. JOHNSON A decade past a half-century is a long time to wait to receive a medal, but that?s what happened to local W.W.II veteran Hubert P. Boyd. Boyd had actually received one Purple Heart, but was due another for a separate incident, which he had never been awarded due to some bureaucratic…

Warren County Sheriff?s deputy Steven Carpenter recently completed his Basic Law Enforcement Officer Training Academy courses at Walters State Community College in Greenville, Tenn. Steven is a Warren County resident and is the son of Allen and Beverly Carpenter.

By DUANE SHERRILL Minutes after hitting a fire hydrant, a Bermuda Drive man torched a neighbor?s car after the man refused to help him move his wrecked vehicle off the hydrant. The defendant, Christopher M. Ward, is charged with illegal burning of property and will face preliminary hearing before General Sessions Judge Larry Ross on…

By DUANE SHERRILL While the parents came to Santa instead of Santa coming to the parents, this year?s 45th annual Warren County Rescue Squad toy drive was another success, serving over 1,200 needy children. ?We couldn?t do this if it weren?t for the good people of Warren County,? said rescue squad Director Fred Hillis. ?They…

By LISA HOBBS McMinnville?s Urban Forestry Department and Boyd Christian?s National Honor Society would like to remind everyone to beautify McMinnville by dropping off their old Christmas tree at one of three areas this year. ?We recycle the trees,? said maintenance manager for the department J.J. Hillis. ?We mulch them ourselves. Once the mulch has…